Common terms
The wide spread of a particular disease in the world
What is a Pandemic
The intervention prior to infection
What is Primary prevention?
Something that is happening
What is a case?
To be be infected by a virus through the mode of air or inhaling
What is Airborne Transmission?
someone who carries or hold a virus
Who is a carrier?
The spread of a particular disease in an area
What is an Epidemic?
to identify disease at the Beginning stage before signs and symptoms
What is Secondary prevention?
To define what case is happening
What is Case definition?
To come in direct contact with an agent
What is Direct transmission?
Someone who is infected with a disease and can give it to another person
Who is an active carrier?
Common in a group of people or area
What is an Endemic?
To make easy an ongoing illness or Injury that has a lasting effect
What is Tertiary prevention?
The first person to expose others within a group
What is Primary case?
How a virus is transferred from one to another.
What is Mode of transmission?
Someone who does not display symptoms but is infected
Who is a healthy or passive carriers?
The Epidemiology Triangle
What is an Agent, Host, and Environment?
Does not require any action for protection
What is Passive primary prevention?
When there might be a need to report
What is a suspected case?
By touching the doorknob that an infected person touch is considered
What is vehicle-borne-transmition?
Someone who is capable of transmitting a disease even tough they are fully recovered
Who is a convalescent carrier?
Epidemiology
What is a field of science that studies health problems within a population?
Measures taken before an injury or illness
What is Active primary prevention?
The first case in a group or other cases within a group
What is an index case?
To contract a virus from infection transmitted to humans and other animals by blood or feeding
What is vector-borne-transmission?
Someone who can transmit illness before symptoms start showing.
Who is an incubatory carrier?